A Dark and Bloody Ground: A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State

A Dark and Bloody Ground: A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State

An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.

Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark a…

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